I don't think your message made it through to the list - just me.
Probably best not to submit through GMane. Here it is:
On 23 February 2012 19:52, Salvador Fandiño <sfandino_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> On 02/23/2012 07:50 PM, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
>>
>> On 22 February 2012 22:55, Salvador
>> Fandiño<sfandino-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w_at_public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have been testing my module with libssh2 1.4.0 and found that put
>>> transfers always stall after reading around 262130 +-10 from the channel
>>> (note that my module does not use the SFTP functionality from libssh2, it
>>> just connects to the remote server, creates a new channel and then writes
>>> and reads from it).
>>>
>>> After seeing this thread I got the source from git, hoping that my
>>> problem
>>> would have being also solved, but is hasn't.
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> I think it would be a good idea to test the patch with bigger transfers
>>> before making a new release.
>>
>>
>> You say you don't use libssh2's SFTP implementation so the changes
>> introduced by the patch don't apply to your problem. They only change
>> sftp.c.
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>
> yes, I know, I was hoping that the libssh2 sftp code were using the same
> calls for accessing the channel data as Net::SSH2, but after inspecting
> libssh2 code I can see that it is actually using a lower level API.
>
> Net::SSH2 uses libssh2_channel_read_ex and, this may ring a bell, the
> transfer stalls after exactly 256 * 1024 bytes have been read from the
> channel.
This happens to be the default channel windows size. Just a thought;
I've no idea if it's related.
> What follows is the combined debug log from Net::SFTP and Net::SSH2, I guess
> it is easy understandable. Lines beginning by // are my comments:
>
> ...
> # reading at 0/4
> Net::SSH2::Channel::read(size = 4, ext = 0)
> - read 4 bytes
> - read 4 total
> # 4 bytes read from SSH channel, total 262108
> # reading at 4/4
> # reading at 4/28
> Net::SSH2::Channel::read(size = 24, ext = 0)
> - read 24 bytes
> - read 24 total
> # 24 bytes read from SSH channel, total 262132
> # reading at 28/28
> # 4125 bytes written to SSH channel, total 38558276
> # reading at 0/4
> Net::SSH2::Channel::read(size = 4, ext = 0)
> - read 4 bytes
> - read 4 total
> # 4 bytes read from SSH channel, total 262136
> # reading at 4/4
> # reading at 4/28
>
> // At this point, 262136 bytes have been read from the channel
> // Net::SFTP::Foreign tries to read the remaining 24 bytes of the
> // SSH2_FXP_STATUS response (the packet length, 4bytes, have
> // already been read)
>
> Net::SSH2::Channel::read(size = 24, ext = 0)
>
> // Net::SSH2 calls libssh2_channel_read_ex(channel, XLATEXT, b, 24)
>
> - read 8 bytes
>
> // it reads 8 bytes and returns, at this point, 256*1024 bytes
> // have been read from the channel.
> // Net::SSH2 calls libssh2_channel_read_ex(channel, XLATEXT, b, 16)
> // and it never returns, the debugger reveals the process is
> // inside "poll".
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Received on 2012-02-23